Émile GALLÉ. L.A.S. with 5 drawings (incomplete... - Lot 8 - Ader

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Émile GALLÉ. L.A.S. with 5 drawings (incomplete... - Lot 8 - Ader
Émile GALLÉ. L.A.S. with 5 drawings (incomplete from the beginning), [1892 ?, to Robert de Montesquiou]; 3 pages in-8 (tab). Letter illustrated with five pen-and-ink drawings of vases. The leaflet begins with the end of a letter : " out of the rich treasure of your heart knows so well how to raise, beyond our miserable atmosphere to the region where pain will not be anymore ". This is followed by a postscript in which Gallé gratefully evokes a commission from Madame G. [Greffulhe?]: "the vase lost by some Ladies of Lorraine will be found by this great Lady of France. [...] Let a slender vase be adorned with the flower that does not work, that runs proudly through the blue. This work will be consecrated by one of your texts that I await". He proposes and draws five vases decorated with lilies or other lilies, giving details on the dimensions and colors. Thus: "And he concludes: "It is necessary however not that our lily lends, in the circumstance, to derision, the principal virtue of the young groom not being the absolute candor of the lily. Perhaps therefore the heraldic turn a little is to advise "...
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